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Diseases in newborn infants vary in name and manifestation. These include Ma Ya (horse's teeth), E Kou (goose's mouth), Qi Feng (umbilical tetanus), Chong She (double tongue), Mu She (wooden tongue) causing swelling and pain, incessant crying at night, and Dan Du (erysipelas/toxic heat rash) caused by the upward attack of Heart Fire. Diseases occurring before one month of age are often ominous, resembling a candle flickering in the wind.

"Tai Du" (Fetal Toxin) arises from receiving excessive maternal blood-heat during gestation. This leads to excessive heat generating phlegm; excessive phlegm generates wind; and excessive wind causes Jing Jin (jaw clenching/lockjaw) and Chun Cuo (lip retraction/puckering). Symptoms include chest and abdominal distension, difficulty in the throat, and inability to feed. Initially, the infant cries incessantly; when severe, the cry becomes silent. This is because the infant's Qi and Blood are weak and cannot subdue the toxin, causing Heart Fire to flare upward. White spots appear all over the gums, named "Ma Ya" (Horse's Teeth). Alternatively, white spots on the upper palate resembling millet grains are named "E Kou" (Goose's Mouth). If, after umbilical cord separation, Wind-Dampness invades and affects the Heart and Spleen, leading to refusal to nurse, lip puckering, abdominal distension with visible blue veins, it is named "Qi Feng" (Umbilical Tetanus).

If fetal toxin attacks upward, a second tongue-like structure appears under the tongue, named "Chong She" (Double Tongue); if the tongue swells and stiffens like wood, it is named "Mu She" (Wooden Tongue). Alternatively, due to fetal heat and cold viscera, abdominal pain and night crying occur, or there is sudden fright movement (Ke Wu Jing Cuan). If the pregnant mother consumes excessive spicy and hot foods, accumulating heat in the fetus and transmitting residual heat to the child, blood and heat contend, allowing Wind Pathogens to invade. This results in red swelling all over the body, named "Dan Du" (Toxic Heat Rash/Erysipelas). The heat is like fire, with unbearable pain and itching. It may manifest on the head and face, or on the limbs, chest, and back. Urgent treatment is required for all cases; otherwise, toxic vapors entering the abdomen will make rescue difficult. In the early stages of infant illness, if parents fail to take precautions or physicians mistakenly administer hot-natured remedies, rescue is often impossible, which is truly pitiable. Practitioners of this art must be cautious.

Wind pathogens enter the umbilicus early; auspiciousness or misfortune can be verified within seven days. If abdominal pain, wet and ulcerated umbilicus, silence, and lip puckering are observed, it is Wind (Tetanus).

Within the first week after birth, if the abdomen is distended and hard, the area around the umbilicus is swollen, lips are puckered, brows are knitted, and the jaw is locked, it is called the Qi Feng syndrome. This occurs because the umbilical cord was cut too short or tied loosely, allowing water-dampness to invade the umbilicus and external Wind pathogens to enter through deficiency. The pathogen transmits to the Heart, accumulates, and then spreads to the Spleen collaterals, causing a stiff tongue, cyanotic lips, slight convulsions of the hands and feet, lockjaw preventing nursing, a hoarse cry, and tidal sounds of phlegm in the throat. These are its signs.

Treatment Methods: Push San Guan (Three Gates) and Clear Fei Jing (Lung Meridian) (120 times each); Yun Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams) and Tonify Pi Tu (Spleen Earth) (100 times each); Fen Yin Yang (Divide Yin and Yang).
If only lip puckering is present, use only Fire Lamp Moxibustion: One application on each side of the mouth corners, one on each Tiger's Mouth (Hegu area), one on each of the four joints of the little fingers, and four on the Nao Men (Forehead). If blue veins are prominent and the abdomen is distended and hard, apply seven applications around the umbilicus, one on each vein, and one where the veins diverge. Apply one application to Yong Quan (KI1). If the umbilicus swells and everts, accompanied by scattered spirit and cold breath, it is incurable.